California Clock Company is proud to offer this one of a kind Blessed Mother Mary Clock.

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California Clock is proud to offer this beautiful and inspirational clock. The face is adorned with twelve different pictures of the Blessed Mother taken from world famous paintings from around the world.At the strike of 12, every hour, on the hour, a different beautiful melody is played.13″ dial with volume control. Digital sound quality. Sound can be turned off or set to play only during daylight hours.This clock makes a beautiful gift for anyone who loves the Lord, and traditional worship.Included is a beautiful full color bound booklet in both English and Spanish languages describing the history of each painting depicted on the face.

Believed to be from the thirteenth of fourteenth century from the island of Crete.In 1499 it was placed in the Church of St. Mathew on Esquiline Hill in Rome.The church was destroyed in 1798 under orders from Napoleon.In 1853, at the request of Pope Pius 1X, the Redemptorist Fathers built a church next to those remains.A priest learned of the saved image’s whereabouts and asked the Pope to have the painting returned to where it had been for almost 300 years.Pius recalled having prayed before that very painting as a boy.The Pope commissioned the Order to preach devotion to Mary under this image.

In 1917 Mary appeared to three young children of Fatima, appearing on the thirteenth of each month from May until October.Mary told them of three things for the conversion of sinners and peace in the world; to pray daily, especially the rosary and wearing the brown scapular; to make reparations for one’s sins; and, to consecrate the world, especially Russia, to her Immaculate Heart.Mary said that she would give them a sign at the last apparition.On that day Mary declared “I am the Lady of the Rosary.”She told them that many souls would be saved, that Russia would be converted and a period of peace would be given to mankind if her request were followed.70,000 people from numerous races and creeds witnessed the “Miracle of the Sun.”The sun was seen to twirl or dance in the sky, then descend to the earth as if it would crash down upon them, before it suddenly returned back to its place in the sky.No one that stared at the sun for the entire happening had an eye or retina damage.

Three statues have been fashioned after the original, they travel around the world inspiring people and reminding them of Mary’s promises and her “peace plan from heaven.”

Legend says that this image was painted by St. Luke on a table top that belonged to Mary.From Jerusalem, St. Helena took the painting to Constantinople where it remained for 500 years, eventually being in the possession of Prince Ladislaus of Poland in the 1400’s.During an attack on the castle at Belz, an arrow struck the painting in the throat.To protect it, he was going to move it to the city of Opala.Stopping in Czestochova for the night, the horses refused to move on the morning of August 26, 1382.

St. Ladislaus had a church and monastery built there for the Pauline Fathers, who have cared for the painting since.In 1430 the monastery was attacked by the Hussites, who put the painting in a wagon with other stolen items.The horses refused to move.When the Hussites learned of this happening before, they threw the painting to the ground.One of them struck the painting twice with his sword, but on the third attempt, fell to the ground in agony until his death.All attempts to repair the scars have failed, they always reappear.The portrait faced numerous other threats, but miracles continued to protect it.

The accounts of many miracles and cures, attributed to this painting of Our Lady, are preserved in the archives of the Pauline Fathers at Jasna Gora.

The fifth Glorious Mystery of the rosary crowns Mary as “Queen of Heaven.”In 1954, Pope Pius XXII officially established the “Queenship of Mary,” not as an empty title or as an honorary distinction, but with its roots in scripture and most especially as Jesus’ mother – a queen by divine relationship.

A Queen Mother is one whose son later becomes king.Jesus was king at birth.Mary’s was a divine motherhood because she conceived a king.It was the Angel Gabriel that told Mary the Lord God would give Jesus the throne of his father, David, and that of his kingdom there would be no end (Lk 1:32-33).

May is the month dedicated to Mary and this is the time when coronation is the traditional form of reverence shown to images of our Blessed Mother.A crown is a symbol of a queen and of a follower of Christ.Mary is the perfect follower, worthy of the “crown of glory” that is promised to those who follow Christ (1 Peter 5:4).

St. John saw Mary crowned in Revelations 12:1, “A great sign appeared in the sky, a women clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.”

In 1830, St. Catherine Laboure, a novice of the Daughters of Charity in Paris, was called from her bed by a child who led her to the chapel where Mary appeared to her.In the second, of three, apparitions, Mary appeared standing on a globe, holding another globe in her hand that Mary told her represented the world.When that globe disappeared, many beautiful rings with precious stones were on her hands with rays of light shining out from them.She told Catherine that the rays were symbols of the graces she would shed upon those that asked for them.There was a frame around our Blessed Mother and gold letters that read “O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.”A voice then said to Catherine, “Have a medal struck according to this model.All who wear it will receive great graces especially if they wear it around their neck.”

The back of the image had the letter “M” surmounted by a cross with a crossbar beneath it.Two hearts were under the “M”, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, encircled with thorns, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, pierced by a sword.Twelve stars encircled the image.

Catherine’s confessor relayed all that she had told him to the Archbishop, who saw that the medal was made.Because of its inscription, the medal was originally known as the“Medal of the Immaculate Conception.”But because of so many conversions and miracles associated with the medal it became known as the “Miraculous Medal.”

In 1531 as Juan Diego, an Aztec Indian, was traveling through the Tepeyac hill country in central Mexico, Mary appeared to him.She told him that she loved him and desired that he know who she was, the mother of the true God, who gives life.She promised to console all who implore her help and that they would be at peace.She asked him to go to the bishop in Tenochtitlan with her request that a church be built on this spot.Mary was waiting when Juan Diego returned, he told her that the bishop would only consider her request and that maybe she should send someone else.Mary told him that it was he she had chosen and that he should go back to the bishop and repeat her request.

The bishop asked Juan Diego for a sign from the Lady to prove who she was.Mary’s response to Juan Diego was “My little Son, am I not your Mother?Do not fear, the Bishop shall have his sign.”Though it was winter, Mary told Juan Diego to pick roses that were growing there and she arranged them inside of his tilma.When Juan Diego opened his tilma to the bishop and others, the roses fell out, and there, on the inside of the tilma, was a picture of Mary exactly as Juan Diego had described her.The tilma now hangs over the alter in the Basilica.Made of cactus cloth, it has not disintegrated, nor has the image faded in over 470 years.